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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Library Loot

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Marg @ The Adventures of an Intrepid Readerand Claire @The Captive Readerthat encourages bloggers to share the books they have checked out from the library.Only two this week - I'm making good progress reading my January pilebut want to avoid overloading so keeping library borrowing to a minimum.

Effie: the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper.....I felt like reading some non-fiction and a scandalous love story and the woman who inspired some of the greatest paintings of the Victorian era should prove interesting.

Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay.....in a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal..